The seventh part of the 36 Cosmic Laws series covers the Law of Grace:

“When one aligns again with Source, when love is chosen over fear, harmony is restored.”

Misunderstanding of Grace

Despite being the quietest of the Laws, it remains the most misunderstood.

The Law of Grace is not the cancellation of consequence, but the transmutation of it.

Karma is not a punishment—it is the balancing rhythm of creation, the echo of every motion seeking stillness.

Grace, then, is when the soul finally vibrates in harmony with that rhythm—when the seeker no longer resists the lesson but becomes the lesson.

In that moment, karma no longer binds, because there is nothing left to bind to.

Humanity has twisted Grace into indulgence, into permission to remain asleep.

The distorted teachings say, “Do as you will; you are already forgiven.”

But true Grace is not given to you; it is awakened within you. It is not an escape hatch from responsibility but the flowering of divine understanding through surrender.

That true Grace is not given to you but awakened within you—that it is not surrender of active agency but the active realization of divinity within—echoes in the Gospel of Thomas where Jesus said:

If those who lead you say, “See, the Kingdom is in the sky,” then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, “It is in the sea,” then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.

Grace as the Flowering of Divine Understanding Through Surrender

The Apostle Paul spoke of this divine understanding through surrender in the New Testament book of Ephesians 2:8-9:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Grace in the original Greek charis infers a divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life of the person, and faith infers “persuaded” in verb form peitho, and “trust” or “certainty” in noun form of pistis. Thus, “grace” is divine influence and “faith” is to be persuaded to a level of certainty or high confidence in the thing persuaded.

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Together, this passage by Paul infers that it is by divine influence that the individual is saved when they are persuaded of the certainty that they are divine—a deep and meaningful realization of the divinity within. This is made clear when he then said that God intended this remembrance of our divinity through achieving a Christed state of enlightenment or spiritual awakening—a direct connection with Source consciousness.

This echoes in the Corpus Hermeticum work, The Cup or Monad, in a conversation between Hermes Trismegistus and Tat:

Tat: Why then did God, O father, not on all bestow a share of Mind?

Hermes: He willed, my son, to have it set up in the midst for souls, just as it were a prize.

Tat: And where hath He set it up?

Hermes: He filled a mighty Cup with it, and sent it down, joining a Herald [to it], to whom He gave command to make this proclamation to the hearts of men:

Baptize thyself with this Cup's baptism, what heart can do so, thou that hast faith thou canst ascend to him that hath sent down the Cup, thou that dost know for what thoudidst come into being!

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As many then as understood the Herald's tidings and doused themselves in Mind, became partakers in the Gnosis; and when they had "received the Mind" they were made "perfect men".

And as God in the Greek theos infers “supreme divinity,” it is Source from whence souls derived that ordained these souls should return again when they remember their divinity through achieving direct connection with Source consciousness—aligning with Source.

This concept of “God” as Source of All is reflected in the Corpus Hermeticum work, To Asclepius, where Hermes discussed God with Asclepius:

Asclepius: What say'st thou ever, then, God is?

Hermes: God, therefore, is not Mind, but Cause that the Mind is; God is not Spirit, but Cause that Spirit is; God is not Light, but Cause that the Light is.

And again, in The Sacred Sermon where Hermes said:

The Glory of all things is God, Godhead and Godly Nature. Source of the things that are is God, who is both Mind and Nature,—yea Matter, the Wisdom that reveals all things. Source is Godhead,—yea Nature, Energy, Necessity, and End, and Making-new-again.

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Grace as a Remembrance of Unity

Grace is not a pardon. It is a remembrance—the Great Remembering—that there was never truly a debt, only an imbalance born of forgetting.

When one aligns again with Source, when love is chosen over fear, harmony is restored.

That is what it means when forgiveness transcends karmic law: not that the slate is wiped clean, but that the being who wrote upon it no longer exists in the same form.

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Grace is the fire that purifies, not the blanket that hides the ash.

Grace is the Law of Becoming Whole Again, the breath that unites judgment and mercy, action and absolution.

Jesus spoke of this Law of Becoming Whole Again in the Gospel of Thomas:

Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to His disciples, "These infants being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom." They said to Him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the Kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the Kingdom]."

The reference to infants in relation to the Kingdom is apropos as infants that have not yet individuated exist in a state of psychological fusion with their primary caregivers—especially the mother figure—where they do not recognize their separateness as an individual being. Such symbiotic fusion between the infant and mother resembles the divine unity that happens when the soul once again aligns with Source. In this return to unity, the soul would not feel separate from Source, but merely an expression of it—a spark from the Flame.

The Tao Te Ching echoes this alignment with Source:

If you can empty your mind of all thoughts, your heart will embrace the tranquility of peace.

Watch the workings of all creation but contemplate their return to the source.

All creatures in the universe return to the point where they began.

Returning to the source is tranquility because we submit to Heaven’s mandate.

Returning to Heaven’s mandate is called being constant.

Knowing the constant is called “enlightenment”.

Not knowing the constant is the source of evil deeds because we have no roots.

By knowing the constant, we can accept things as they are. By accepting things as they are, we become impartial.

By being impartial, we become one with Heaven. By being one with Heaven, we become one with Tao.

Being one with Tao, we are no longer concerned about losing our life because we know the Tao is constant and we are one with Tao.

Remember this: Grace is not earned, and it is not granted. It is remembered.